BEIRUT (AP) — With Russia’s war on Ukraine now in its third week, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday approved bringing in volunteer fighters from the Middle East, particularly Syria.

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Ukraine cut diplomatic ties with Damascus in June 2022, after Syria – then a Russian ally and dependent – recognised the ...

Ukraine's GUR said on Tuesday that the success of the rebels in Aleppo and Hama, heading further south toward Homs, had been a blow to morale for Russian military personnel in Syria, with Arabic ...

Syria’s de facto new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and other officials have held talks with Ukraine’s foreign minister in one of the most consequential visits since the fall of Bashar al-Assad on ...

The next chapter of the war in Ukraine could see Russia bringing in greater numbers of battle-hardened fighters from Syria, observers say. Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File ...

Some Syrian paramilitary fighters say they are ready to deploy to Ukraine to fight in support of their ally Russia but have not yet received instructions to go, two of their commanders told Reuters.

People raise flags of Ukraine and of the Syrian opposition during a demonstration against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the city of Binnish in Syria’s northwestern rebel-held Idlib province ...

Eyewitnesses to Syrian atrocities fear for Ukraine because they know what Putin is capable of 05:05. As Russian missiles bombard Ukrainian cities and the U.S. secretary of state has called Russia ...

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Ukraine’s military intelligence agency developed plans to conduct covert attacks on Russian forces in Syria using secret Kurdish help, according to a leaked top-secret U.S. intelligence document.